IT is well known fact that acid-fast bacilli, virulent and rendered resistant to isonicotinic acid hydrazide become catalase-negative. The saprophytic bacilli, on the other hand, grown in even high ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB). In addition to showing tuberculosis, an AFB stain can also show if you have another ...

A TELECTASIS with chronic pneumonitis involving the right middle lobe has received considerable attention since this phenomenon was classified as a clinicopathological entity called "middle-lobe ...

Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of nucleic acid amplification testing for tuberculosis increased in the United States between 2011 and ...

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April 23, 2008 (Barcelona) — A novel method for the rapid detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB) shows that it is possible to use ready-to-use reagents for the real-time detection ...